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		<title>US Says Russia/China UN Veto “Disgusting”, “Shameful”, “Deplorable”, “a Travesty” . . . Really?”</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/us-says-russiachina-un-veto-disgusting-shameful-deplorable-a-travesty-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Quick Listing of The United States&#8217; Record of Veto Use at the United Nations (UN): 1972–2011*   Year Resolution Vetoed by the United States   1972 Condemns Israel for killing hundreds of people in Syria and Lebanon in air raids.   1973 Affirms the rights of the Palestinians and calls on Israel to withdraw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life After Guantánamo: The Suffering of the Uighurs in Palau</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/life-after-guantanamo-the-suffering-of-the-uighurs-in-palau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of Guantánamo’s Uighurs has always been one of monstrous injustice — as well as a monstrous failure of intelligence, and an equally monstrous failure when it comes to the US government taking responsibility for its own mistakes. This is not a unique occurrence in Guantánamo, of course, but it has long been emblematic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grave Threat of “Homegrown Terrorism”</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/the-grave-threat-of-homegrown-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. government officials and their cheerleaders in the community of so-called “Terrorism experts” have spent the last two years justifying Endless War and ever-increasing surveillance, detention and militarism authorities with a steady drumbeat of shrill warnings that the nation faces a new, grave menace: the threat of “Homegrown Terrorism” from radicalized American Muslims: Fox News, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islamophobia: America Becoming Europe</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/islamophobia-america-becoming-europe/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/islamophobia-america-becoming-europe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nope, I am not talking about the debt crisis, public transportation or the number of smokers, etc. There is a troubling trend that American society is increasingly becoming like Europe vis-à-vis her attitude toward Islam and Muslims.   Islamophobia, defined as unfounded and irrational fear of Islam as a religion and Muslims as a people, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘case’ against Hezbollah</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/the-case-against-hezbollah/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/the-case-against-hezbollah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The allegations span South American cocaine shipments, US-used car dealerships, money-laundering in West Africa, several money-exchange houses, and end up in a Lebanese bank.   In December the US justice department filed a civil claim [PDF] against certain assets both in Lebanon and in the United States in what is seen as the US government’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khader Adnan, political prisoner held without charges, is near death after 53 days of hunger strike</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/khader-adnan-political-prisoner-held-without-charges-is-near-death-after-53-days-of-hunger-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/khader-adnan-political-prisoner-held-without-charges-is-near-death-after-53-days-of-hunger-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Khader Adnan is on the 53rd day of hunger strike. Passing his 42nd day, the Palestinian political prisoner entered the fatal high-risk stage of starvation, where he is risking cardiac arrest and the inevitable shutting-down of major organs. The Palestine News Network reports what awaits Adnan: [A]fter the 42nd day of a hunger strike, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamas’s Gaza-based leadership challenges Palestinian unity deal</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/hamass-gaza-based-leadership-challenges-palestinian-unity-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/hamass-gaza-based-leadership-challenges-palestinian-unity-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13147</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hamas&#8217;s Gaza-based leadership challenged on Wednesday a Palestinian reconciliation deal signed by the Islamist group&#8217;s political chief in exile and President Mahmoud Abbas of the rival Fatah movement.   Bringing divisions within Hamas to the surface, the group&#8217;s &#8220;Change and Reform&#8221; Gaza parliamentary bloc came out against a key clause in the pact under which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Fisk: From Washington this looks like Syria’s ‘Benghazi moment’. But not from here</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/robert-fisk-from-washington-this-looks-like-syrias-benghazi-moment-but-not-from-here/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/robert-fisk-from-washington-this-looks-like-syrias-benghazi-moment-but-not-from-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East are filled with stories about whether or not this is Assad&#8217;s &#8220;Benghazi moment&#8221; – these reports are almost invariably written from Washington or London or Paris – but few in the region understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Picture</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/mumia-abu-jamal-the-picture/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/mumia-abu-jamal-the-picture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something very small and yet enormous happened this past week.   On Feb. 2, two women who have been fighting for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal, filmmaker/professor Johanna Fernandez and National Lawyers Guild Heidi Boghosian, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, visited Abu-Jamal, as each has done in the past, but this time, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers, “Experts” Spin Tales of Iranian Terror in Latin America</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/lawmakers-experts-spin-tales-of-iranian-terror-in-latin-america/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/lawmakers-experts-spin-tales-of-iranian-terror-in-latin-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13135</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through its ties with Venezuela and other nations in Latin America, Iran is building an anti-U.S. alliance in the Western Hemisphere that poses a direct, imminent threat to the United States, an influential U.S. lawmaker said Thursday. The remark from House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, author of sanctions legislation targeting Iran that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gideon Levy: Israelis should be afraid of their leaders, not Iran</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/gideon-levy-israelis-should-be-afraid-of-their-leaders-not-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/gideon-levy-israelis-should-be-afraid-of-their-leaders-not-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RAINman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death. If one is to believe the threats that are ramping up at warp speed, Israel will strike Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities before spring. If the assessments are accurate, hundreds or even thousands of Israelis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amira Hass: For the sake of his dignity</title>
		<link>http://rain.org.za/amira-hass-for-the-sake-of-his-dignity/</link>
		<comments>http://rain.org.za/amira-hass-for-the-sake-of-his-dignity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://rain.org.za/?p=13128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Khader Adnan has already broken a Palestinian record for the longest solo hunger strike. Yesterday he passed his 50th day as a hunger striker, protesting what he regards as humiliating practices exercised by Shin Bet security service interrogators. Posters displayed at support rallies have above his portrait the statement: &#8220;Dignity above food&#8221;, a statement repeated [...]]]></description>
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